Tangara Trail - Old Monmouth Track Acton Park, Tasmania, Australia
By
whitewebbs on 01-Jul-17. Waypoint GA10299
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Micro |
| Coordinates: | S42° 52.439' E147° 29.137' (WGS 84) |
| 55G 539662E 5253064N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 65 m |
| Local Government Area: | Clarence |
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Description
The word Tangara is an Aboriginal word meaning, "Let's get away together" and is the name given to the main recreational trail network in the Clarence Municipality from Cambridge and Five Mile Beach, near the Hobart Airport, to South Arm.
It comprises a main corridor intersected by many other tracks and offers over 80 connected kilometres of recreational trails through scenic coastal reserves and undulating semi-rural countryside.
The trail is constantly growing, with new sections added each year. It is becoming recognised as one of the best horseriding, walking and mountain bike trail systems in Australia and is being used as a model in areas where trails are being established.
A Tangara Trail brochure is available in a handy pocket size format for horse riders, walkers and mountain bike riders from the Clarence Council. Maps are also available on the City of Clarence website or Tangara Trail website. NB a map will not be required to do the cache as it is a short walk from the car parking coordinates, but may be handy if you wish to explore the area further.
The following Code of Conduct has been taken from the Tangara Trail website.
The Code of Conduct provides an etiquette guide to assist the various Tangara Trail users to share the tracks responsibly and minimise potential conflict.
The following etiquette guide is taken from the Tasmanian Mountain Bike Plan 2009 and has been modified to suit the Tangara Trail.
1. Respect other users
- Use your voice to alert other Tangara Trail users of your presence
- Horse riders have priority, then walkers; MTB riders give way to both.
As a courtesy, walkers may step aside on narrow sections of track to allow bikes to pass
- When passing slow to the speed of other users, prepare to stop if necessary
- When walking with your dog, keep it under effective control and restrain the dog on a lead or by the collar if you encounter a horse, bike or other walkers.
2. Be safe
- Slow down for corners and blind spots
- Ride your horse or bike at a controlled speed
- Wear an approved equestrian or bike helmet
- Carry a mobile phone with you in case of emergency
3. Stay on the Tangara Trail
- Do not trespass on private land
- Obey signs prohibiting access to beaches during bird nesting season, or other sensitive areas
4. Minimise impacts on the environment
- Avoid muddy tracks – seek an alternative after rain
- Take out your litter ‘leave no trace’
- Respect local flora and fauna
- Keep your boots, bike or horse hooves clean to avoid the spread of weeds and plant diseases
5. Get involved
- Report trail hazards, incidents and maintenance issues to Clarence City Council
- Take part in trail maintenance days
Let's all get out and find a cache. Please BYO pen.
Watch out for muggles!
Suggested parking S42 52.362 E147 29.211 as Mrs GPS may take you to a road that is nearby that is not necessarily the entrance to the trail.
Hints
Unatvat, nebhaq xarr urvtug, ba 2aq pureel gerr va, ba fvqr pybfrfg gb srapr, abg genpx fvqr. |
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Decode |
Logs
Found with Newy07 on our last chance of scoring any fire shots for battle ships game. Hope we’re not a sinking ship! A huge thanks to everyone in Tassie for their amazing efforts to give players a chance to win. It has been so much fun! 
TFTC Whitewebbs!
Cheers
Newy71
TFTC Whitewebbs!
Cheers
Newy71
We decided that it was definitely time to finish off this Tangara Trail series and as the bear was on night shift he came along too. Lovely autumn weather made walking these tracks very pleasant. The bear made the find.
Thanks for the cache and the series whitewebbs.
Thanks for the cache and the series whitewebbs.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found on a caching trip to Hobart - accurate co ordinates led to a quick find - cache and contents in good condition.
Many thanks whitewebbs for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.
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Thanks for the cache Whitewebbs. This cache has been on my radar for a very long time as it is quite close to home, and the GeoGSP and I often walk along these tracks. Today I headed out with RLD4963 and the GeoGSP to see if I could find the cache. We passed a couple ofpooches on our walk in, but none of them bothered us at GZ so we could had a decent search. Took a few minutes but the cache was then spotted - I find these the trickiest caches to spot! Cache is all in good condition, Cheers.
Rated: for Overall Experience
A quick find when we reached GZ. Managed a quick hour just before dark to grab the four caches out this way. Have had them on the target list for a while but haven't had the opportunity. On our way back to the car when a doggy walking muggle came by, it's all in the timing. TFTC and the exercise
Nice walk along to the cache location, but took a little while to find the cache as it was hidden slightly right of where we were expecting. All Good and cache was signed and returned.
TFTC
TFTC
Thanks for putting this series of caches out so we can explore the tangara trail. Either I'm short or you are very tall as it was a bit higher than me knee.
Well, we had been so absorbed in the conference that we ran that we hadn't even noticed there was a game on! We only spotted Christmas in July today, but it inspired us to go out and find a few caches - even though we don't think there is any way we will open all the gifts! Hunting this cache brought us to a part of the Tangara trail that we hadn't been on before, so thanks for broadening our horizons, Whitewebbs. We had a little trouble with which was the correct numbered object, and as per usual with these kinds of caches we suffered from temporary blindness! TFTC.
We had planned one caching trip to Hobart and the Eastern Shore during The Christmas in July game. The ground kept shifting as new Trophy challenges were added so we needed to add more GA caches to out to find list. Not only did we need cache finds for Christmas in July, we needed a cache for a Frigid Solstice, 10 GA Dragon Zone caches for the 12th for the find 25 caches on each day of the month as well as 13 moveables that we need to move between 250 and 500km and a cache in the Sorell council area, we had found caches in Sorell before Dragon Zone but needed one after April 2014. Of course there were also unfound GC caches in the areas we were going to visit. All this meant our to find list was quite long and we were unlikely to manage to knock them all off today. We also needed a day that the weather Bureau forecast predicted would be mainly fine. July 12 looked like it.
We usually leave home quite early however with the threat of ice on sections of the Bass and Midlands highways we decided to head off just before 7:00. We did have the added complication of dosing our daughters cat with its anti biotic pill. It only took one person to administer a pill to our last cat however daughter's cat, that is smaller definitely needs two people one to make sure the pill goes in and is swallowed and the second to firmly hold cat particularly her paws. After leaving our place we headed to daughters abode where we were greeted by a nature strip strew with her household garbage - today was bin day in her street. There was no bin in sight. It appeared that someone had tipped her bin out and stolen the bin. After dosing the cat we found a large bin bag, collected the scattered garbage and took it back to our place so that it could go out with ours tomorrow.
Off we headed again an hour later than we had intended. There was little likelihood of ice on the roads at this time even though there was quite thick frost on the road edges at Latrobe, Deloraine and Westbury. We turned off the Midlands Highway on to the Mud Walls Road and headed through Colebrook and Campania then on to Sorell and Midway Point. This was the fourth cache on our list.
We were looking forward to finding these caches as we had walked several sections of the Tangara Trail previously looking for caches and thoroughly enjoyed seeing the variety of flora and fauna and the exceptional views from the elevated sections of the trail.
As we headed to GZ we were accosted by 3 yapping dogs, two tiny mutts decked out in bright blue coats and a larger, older dog that had only its fur coat.
It took a while to locate the cache as our GPS liked the other end of the grove of trees and our eyes took a while to adjust. Finally caching sense kicked in and the well camo'ed cache was in hand and the log signed. Container and contents were in good condition. We were greeted again by the trio of yappers on our way back to the car. We are always amazed that dogs can bark furiously for extended periods of time without seeming to get sore throats.
Thanks for the cache WhiteWebbs and for showing us another section of the Tangara Trail.
We usually leave home quite early however with the threat of ice on sections of the Bass and Midlands highways we decided to head off just before 7:00. We did have the added complication of dosing our daughters cat with its anti biotic pill. It only took one person to administer a pill to our last cat however daughter's cat, that is smaller definitely needs two people one to make sure the pill goes in and is swallowed and the second to firmly hold cat particularly her paws. After leaving our place we headed to daughters abode where we were greeted by a nature strip strew with her household garbage - today was bin day in her street. There was no bin in sight. It appeared that someone had tipped her bin out and stolen the bin. After dosing the cat we found a large bin bag, collected the scattered garbage and took it back to our place so that it could go out with ours tomorrow.
Off we headed again an hour later than we had intended. There was little likelihood of ice on the roads at this time even though there was quite thick frost on the road edges at Latrobe, Deloraine and Westbury. We turned off the Midlands Highway on to the Mud Walls Road and headed through Colebrook and Campania then on to Sorell and Midway Point. This was the fourth cache on our list.
We were looking forward to finding these caches as we had walked several sections of the Tangara Trail previously looking for caches and thoroughly enjoyed seeing the variety of flora and fauna and the exceptional views from the elevated sections of the trail.
As we headed to GZ we were accosted by 3 yapping dogs, two tiny mutts decked out in bright blue coats and a larger, older dog that had only its fur coat.
It took a while to locate the cache as our GPS liked the other end of the grove of trees and our eyes took a while to adjust. Finally caching sense kicked in and the well camo'ed cache was in hand and the log signed. Container and contents were in good condition. We were greeted again by the trio of yappers on our way back to the car. We are always amazed that dogs can bark furiously for extended periods of time without seeming to get sore throats.
Thanks for the cache WhiteWebbs and for showing us another section of the Tangara Trail.
Hello whitewebbs thanks for the cache.
I parked at a nearby junction and walked a little way to the cache. I read the hint as I was walking in and thought it wouldn’t be too hard to find but there again I had thought that before on another one of your caches today. AT GZ I thought “which is the hint referring to” as there is so many of them. I was been very careful trying not to bees seen from the nearby yards. Any way after a little searching at the wrong end of the forest I eventually found it at the other end, at least I knew it wasn’t in the middle and by now knew what to look for. The walk back out was very pleasant as I spent a little time peering into the yards thinking how good it would be to live in an area like this.
Found at 1505
TFTC
I parked at a nearby junction and walked a little way to the cache. I read the hint as I was walking in and thought it wouldn’t be too hard to find but there again I had thought that before on another one of your caches today. AT GZ I thought “which is the hint referring to” as there is so many of them. I was been very careful trying not to bees seen from the nearby yards. Any way after a little searching at the wrong end of the forest I eventually found it at the other end, at least I knew it wasn’t in the middle and by now knew what to look for. The walk back out was very pleasant as I spent a little time peering into the yards thinking how good it would be to live in an area like this.
Found at 1505
TFTC
Hi whitewebbs
After finding two caches in Hobart and GA10300; got in geo vehicle and came straight to the car park for this cache
Passed two yapping dogs on the way in and they started again as I went back to car.
The hanger was found quickly.
Sainted the cache at 1326hrs
An interesting path and walk in; looking at the way the rich live. The small "orchard" next to GZ was most interesting - looked like apple trees. The views off the track were very impressive.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
After finding two caches in Hobart and GA10300; got in geo vehicle and came straight to the car park for this cache
Passed two yapping dogs on the way in and they started again as I went back to car.
The hanger was found quickly.
Sainted the cache at 1326hrs
An interesting path and walk in; looking at the way the rich live. The small "orchard" next to GZ was most interesting - looked like apple trees. The views off the track were very impressive.
TFTC and cheers
OldSaint
Rated: for Overall Experience
Out with stainless-steel-rat to find this one. It was lovely and sunny but still cold in the shade. We had to use a bit of stealth here as there was a man working in a garden closeby. He was using a chainsaw so would not have heard us so had no reason to look our way. A quick find, thanks whitewebbs. Must do a bit more exploring in this area.
Rated: for Overall Experience
A nice quick find with GooseandEgg today while out in the sun, (its not warm mind you)
I love these trails and one day I may even walk them all.
Thanks for the cache WW
I love these trails and one day I may even walk them all.
Thanks for the cache WW
Rated: for Overall Experience
We saw four new caches come up while we were out caching at Midway Point. We ummed and arrhed about whether to go for FTF's or not, given that we had limited time before work. We almost decided against it but we thought about who our likely rivals for FTF would be - Whitewebbs or Membsec. We eliminated Whitewebbs because they owned the caches and we eliminated Membsec because we assumed they were likely to be orienteering at Rosny. Thinking that the competition for FTF was low we decided to go for it. The walks to each of the caches were very pleasant on this sunny but cold day. We found blank log books at each of the caches. This is a very nice area which we don't spend enough time exploring so thanks for bringing us back here. Thanks for the caches.
